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WALLDORF — As demand by companies to provide business users faster access to critical business information continues to grow, more customers are turning to the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) application powered by the SAP HANA database as the optimal choice. (more…)

SAP today announced support for SAP HANA from SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver.

• Read the newsbyte.
• Learn more in a blog by Jens Koerner on SAP Community Network.

SAP TechEd has long been the first stop for customers and partners interested in the SAP NetWeaver journey. This year’s event being held in Madrid offers more than just comfy seats and nice scenery: it’s a veritable express train of news, innovations, presentations, and demos. (more…)

SAP today announced that SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, powered by SAP HANA, will enable customers to non-disruptively move their databases to the platform. SAP also announced SAP Customer Segmentation Accelerator, powered by SAP HANA; the successful pilot in India of an online network for enabling social causes; and a new program for developers to build on the SAP HANA platform. Read the press release.

SAP today announced two new solutions for business process integration and new ways to consume SAP software: SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration software and SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology. With these releases, SAP is making its orchestration vision — integrated alignment across the entire IT landscape — a reality in the market. Read the press release.

In a move that makes it easier for customers to manage documents and website content within the SAP NetWeaver Portal component, SAP has expanded its relationship with OpenText. The agreement adds two new applications to SAP NetWeaver Portal, which were developed by SAP together with OpenText: the SAP Portal Content Management application by OpenText and the SAP Portal Site Management application by OpenText. Read the press release.

In a move that makes it easier for customers to manage documents and website content within the SAP NetWeaver Portal component, SAP has expanded its relationship with OpenText. The agreement adds two new applications to SAP NetWeaver Portal, which were developed by SAP together with OpenText: the SAP Portal Content Management application by OpenText and the SAP Portal Site Management application by OpenText. Read the press release.

SAP NetWeaver Portal has seen tremendous adoption over the past year. Thanks to our close collaboration with customers and partners, SAP receives lot of valuable information about the variety of demands in the area of user productivity tools – especially regarding portals. More and more customers implement sophisticated intranets or extranets to provide their users with central and harmonized access to personalized information, services, applications, reports, social information and much more – all in the context of real business processes. (more…)

At its SAPPHIRE NOW event in Orlando in May, SAP announced the planned release of the first standalone version of SAP NetWeaver Gateway in the second quarter of 2011. This important technology release enables access to SAP applications from any environment and any device, by any developer. The release opens the door for millions of developers to use development tools of their choice to create highly innovative apps connecting to SAP software. This is a major milestone SAP’s strategy to enable customers, partners and variety of developers to extend the reach of SAP business applications.

• Read the new SAP.info article: App generator: SAP NetWeaver Gateway
• Check out the blog on SAP Community Network written by an SAP customer
• Take a look at the SAPPHIRE NOW blog
• VIDEO: Michael Reh explains Gateway in a nutshell

The drumbeat around SAP NetWeaver 7.3 began in October 2010 at SAP TechEd in Berlin, when SAP announced that the first full release of the technology platform in five years was being made available to a first wave of customers. In the intervening months, SAP worked hand in glove with customers worldwide on more than 150 ramp-up projects. The efforts came to fruition on May 30, 2011:  SAP NetWeaver 7.3 is now available!

• Read the newsbyte announcing general availability of SAP NetWeaver 7.3
• Watch the video of Bjoern Goerke, senior vice president of Technology and Platform Core, discussing the many facets of SAP NetWeaver 7.3
• Read the sap.info article: Announcing SAP NetWeaver 7.3
• Read Holger Faulhaber’s blog on SAP Community Network, “SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Goes Green,” for a glimpse into potential savings in energy consumption and CO2 emissions (more…)